Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Leads infrastructure engineering projects involving network architecture, migration, performance testing, troubleshooting, automation, resiliency, and cloud operations. Designs and implements infrastructure changes across platforms, performs pre- and post-migration validation and cutovers, and applies Cisco, Arista, Fortinet, BGP, OSPF, switching, scripting, and AI-assisted workflows. Ensures recommendations and changes meet security, sensitivity, auditability, and resiliency standards while collaborating cross-functionally.

Develop backend-first full-stack software for Forge’s broker trading and operations platform. Responsibilities include integrating internal and external APIs, building distributed systems, implementing monitoring and high availability, reviewing code, collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering, and supporting production operations. The role uses low-latency technologies, real-time event-driven architectures, caching, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and containerized microservices.

Lead development, testing, and technical design of highly available, scalable services. Conduct code and design reviews, translate product requirements into technical solutions, mentor engineers, contribute to architecture and team culture, and support large-scale migrations and technology modernization. The role involves distributed systems, microservices, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, AI agent development, monitoring, and production operations.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend systems and microservices for financial technology platforms. Build APIs, distributed workflows, batch-processing systems, data integrations, and pipelines using relational, NoSQL, and warehouse technologies. Improve system resilience, security, observability, and reliability through fault-tolerance strategies, monitoring, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis. Contribute to architecture, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and production support while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Own the end-to-end process of transforming partner workflows into evaluation datasets and reinforcement learning environments. Work directly with AI researchers, executives, and organizational leaders to identify capability gaps, manage technical and relationship lifecycles, shape the product roadmap, and build reusable infrastructure that improves partner onboarding. The role requires strong engineering, communication, systems thinking, judgment, ownership, and comfort in an ambiguous, high-intensity environment.

Lead quality engineering for illumination products: perform internal and AS9100/customer audits, drive corrective/preventive actions, analyze nonconformance trends, develop quality metrics and certification plans, and ensure design and production readiness and compliance.

The Software Engineer II will design, implement, and maintain web applications for marketplace middleware, ensuring high code quality and collaborating with stakeholders.

Build developer-experience tooling and frameworks that streamline development, testing, packaging, and production releases. Lead release tooling designed to move code changes to production within 10 minutes, implement quality feedback loops, and improve engineering workflows using qualitative and quantitative feedback. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to enhance developer productivity, engineering practices, and operational patterns while helping scale the team and platform.

Build and expand fintech and payment systems using Go, microservices, databases, and cloud technologies. Design production APIs and tooling, diagnose customer issues, manage full release lifecycles, document systems, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product and business teams while guiding AI agents to produce maintainable, observable, testable code that meets engineering standards. Work independently in a high-availability environment and contribute to next-generation financial products.

Build and operate low-latency market data systems for institutional trading, including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, venue connectivity, and distribution services. Develop high-throughput services, improve reliability and performance through observability and incident response, participate in on-call support, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The role requires production backend engineering experience, market data infrastructure expertise, Java or C++, messaging frameworks, and exchange connectivity protocols.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Owns and optimizes resilient, ultra-low-latency network and physical data-center infrastructure for institutional trading across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs routing, multicast, segmentation, firewall, VPN, telemetry, and automation systems. Leads production changes, incident response, failover testing, maintenance, and on-call support for 24/7 trading platforms. Mentors engineers and partners with SRE, product, and trading-system teams to improve reliability and developer velocity.

Develop and operate backend systems supporting post-transaction processing for Affirm Card. Break down projects, write tested and extensible code, collaborate with product and engineering teams, monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, participate in on-call support, and contribute to code reviews and team development.

Own Tier 3 escalations and incident response for complex customer issues involving a cybersecurity platform. Investigate distributed systems, reproduce defects, coordinate resolutions with engineering and product teams, and build Datadog observability dashboards, monitors, and alerts. Create runbooks, troubleshooting guides, RCAs, and postmortems; mentor support staff; identify recurring failure patterns; communicate with customers; and participate in an application-layer on-call rotation.

Lead technical strategy, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor early-career engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves developing scalable systems on AWS and Kubernetes while working with healthcare data and adhering to HIPAA and data-security best practices.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, and failover for high-throughput 24/7 production systems. Drive technical designs, collaborate cross-functionally on milestones, and write highly tested performance-critical backend code in Java, C++, or Go.

Build REST APIs, customer-facing React components, backend monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, content management system integrations, and reliable features and services. The role requires JavaScript or TypeScript experience with React and Node.js, REST platform integrations, Git collaboration, HTML and Sass/CSS, server technologies, and cross-functional work with UX and visual designers. Experience with enterprise content management systems, AWS, Java, Freemarker, or Rust is advantageous.

Investigate autonomous-vehicle safety issues through large-scale telemetry and time-series analysis. Integrate vehicle, incident, software-release, location, and operational data into analysis-ready datasets; perform root-cause investigations; distinguish data-quality problems from meaningful outliers; and communicate rigorous findings to safety, operations, and engineering teams. Develop reusable metrics, detection methods, pipelines, and analytics tooling using engineering and physics-based signal-processing techniques.

Own the iOS mobile roadmap and technical strategy for Superhuman Mail. Lead high-impact, cross-team engineering initiatives; define the mobile platform’s architecture, technical foundations, and one-to-two-year investment roadmap. Partner with product and engineering leadership on strategy and execution, mentor senior engineers, drive cross-functional alignment, and improve team delivery through AI-native development practices while maintaining high-quality user experiences.

Own the iOS mobile roadmap and technical strategy for Superhuman Mail. Lead high-impact, complex engineering initiatives; define the mobile platform’s architecture, technical foundations, and one-to-two-year vision; partner with product and engineering leadership on strategy and execution; mentor senior engineers; drive cross-functional alignment; and promote AI-native software development practices while delivering reliable, high-quality mobile experiences.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable production systems for Toast’s retail customers. The role sets long-term technical architecture and strategy, communicates technical direction, mentors senior engineers, improves engineering productivity, diagnoses performance issues, and drives initiatives amid ambiguity. Engineers collaborate directly with retail customers, visit stores, understand operational workflows, and use AI tools to improve development velocity and quality.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.

Design and own secure, scalable wallet infrastructure for custody, key management, transaction signing, authorization, recovery, and multichain systems. Architect support for MPC, HSMs, secure enclaves, TEEs, smart contract wallets, account abstraction, and emerging cryptographic approaches. Define security boundaries, policy engines, secrets management, authentication, and programmable authorization while making foundational build-versus-buy decisions and guiding systems from first principles through production.

Design, scope, and implement scalable backend and platform solutions for a reservations and waitlist product. Improve performance and usability, collaborate with Product and Design, identify high-impact opportunities, and contribute across the stack including APIs and front-end integration.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.